The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-03-05
News of the Week.

day, shows a reduction during February of
81 ,436, 1872. Cash in the Treasury. 1851, 27S,-
209
1t is said that since the earthquake on Jan-
uary Slst, the land in Tyrell county, on the
North Carolina coast, has raised twelve
inches.
About fifty horses in Cohoes, New York,
are sick of disease resembling the scratch
es," but the nature of which puzzles veteri-
narians.
Another outbreak of Mauna Loa, in the
Hawaiian Islands, is reported. AT last &C.
counts all the craters were in a state of great
activity.
James NJ. Sheppard, ex-Superintenden of
Police, of Buffalo, was killed in that city on
Saturday night by the blowing down of new
frame building.
The steamer W. H. Gardner was burned
on the Tombigbee river, near Gainesville,
Alabama, Tuesday evening. Twenty lives
are reported lost.
John Walters, a survivor of the Irish rebel
lion Of 1898, died in Detroit on Tuesday night.
1t is said he would have been lOS years old
had he lived until the 18th Of this month.
A Chinese junk, bound from Hainaufer,
Siam, has been wrecked, and out of the six
hundred persons comprising her passengers
and crew, only six are known to have escaped.
The cabin of a colored man named Burton,
near Mariana, Arkansas, was burned on
Monday morning, and Burton's three chill
dren persisted. Burton was severely burned.
A petition from business men ofProvidence,
representing forty millions of capital, was
on Wednesday presented in the Rhode Island
Legislature, asking the repeal of the Prohib-
itory law.
The President has signed the act 10 idemni-
| fy certain subjects of the Chinese Empire for
losses sustained by the violence of mob at
Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, in Septem-
Der, 1885.
Two centenarians died in Lowell, Mass,
| Sunday. Paul McAloon, aged 101 years, and
Rose Mcguire, 103 years. Both were natives
of Ireland, and had lived in that city nearly
half century.
Mrs. Cart and her two children were caught
by violent snow storm while returning from
visit to a neighboring rancho near Holbrook,
Arizona, on the 18th ut. Their lifeless bod
les were found next day.
/ A slight earthquake was felt in South Car
DINA about 6 o'clock on Saturday morning.
| At Summerville the vibration lasted about
| FIVE seconds and in one house vase was
thrown down. The movement was from west
to east.
One Rooney, to whom a fortune $3.50, 900
had been left by the death of his father in
Ireland, has been found in a Cincinnati hos
pital where he went with fever last fall and
had since remained working for his board and
lodging, as a laborer.
George Middour, a former postmaster of
Waynesborough, Pa, convicted of defrauding
the government, was sentenced in Philadel
phia on Friday of last week to pay fine of
$500 and costs and undergo three months
imprisonment.
Virgins, who predicted the recent earth
quake in Europe (snce it oceurred), says it
will reappear March 22d farther eastward and
will proved of interest both to the people of
this country and Europe between September
and October of this year.
The farm of the late Major Thomas o. Con-
nor, 10 acres, one mile from the corporate
limits of Knoxville, Tenn, was sold at public
sale last week for $50, 900. A lot fronting %
feet on Gay street. Knoxville, belonging to
the same estate, sold for $4,000.
Carl Schurz slipped e and I'd, fell on one of the
slushy pavements in New fora m IN saturday
and sustained a fracture Of the thigh oone'
which will confine him to the house for sew,
eral months. Gen. B. F. Butler, on the same
day, fell and badly injured a shoulder.
The Legislature of West Virginia adjourned
early on Saturday morning without having
passed the General Appropriation bill or
elected u S. Senator The Governor has
Senator, and called session of the Legisla-
ture for Aprii'@yN.
A severe sntS the, Y prevailed on Thurs
day of last We a Nghout the northern
sections of New w Hampshire and
| Varrn0nf About Is h,o ell
level, bat was blowf .SNlauanto drifts ifora
FIVE to twenty feet de & suflrqaSs was sent !;
all directions Ee5e hI ikRs tut She denied al
6eneral ). .IEiuleF, of ueala, has 11s59
appointed by the Governor of Florida to be
United States senator, to succeed Charles
W. Jones, whose term expired on the 4th
inst. General Finley is lawyer by profession,
was a soldier of the Confectionery, has been a
Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, and
served one term in Congress.
In Somerset county, N j., about four miles
from New Brunswick, on Saturday, Wiokoff
Brown, farm. ,Joiningr John b. Ashwell,
twice shot ae, Leppo ausly, il. not fatally
wounded Ella La a girl in the same
house, because she rejected his addresses.
One of the shots went Through her face and
lodged In the neck; the other entered her
back below the shoulder, Brown waa ar
rested,
From Wednesday until Saturday, of last
week, beginning in the far West and winding
up in the North, there was severe storm of
wind, snow and rain, followed by intense cold.
Snow fell to considerable depth, and drifted
in places from five to ten feet. buildings and
churches we're unrooted, harms, trees and fen
ees were blown down, persons were injured
and railroads were blocked. The storm
| renohed MARYLAND on Saturday.
The towns of Leoti and Coronado, in
Wichita county, Kansas. are both ambitious
of becoming the county seRt An election to
decide the matter was held last month, and
| Coronado was defeated. Fraud was charged
on both sides, and on Sunday night crowd
| of Leotlans, going to Coronado, got into a
fight with the citizens of the rival town. A
general fusillade took place, in which two
men were killed and seven wounded, four
MORALLY.
The boiler Of the engine of passenger
train on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
Railroad exploded at q street crossing in
Chicago on Saturday afternoon, killing Gus
tavus Meinser, the engineer, and Clarence
Law, the fireman. The conductor, Wood
ward, was severely injured. A woman pass
ing along the street was dangerously injured
by flying piece of iron, and several other
persons sustained slighter injuries One piece
of iron went through the window Of house
and knocked down woman with baby in
her arms.
Fritz Hass and his wife. an aged couple,
were caught in binding snow storm while
walking home, distance of FIVE miles, from
Shell Lake, Wisconsin, on Thursday afternoon
of last week. Hass becoming exhausted, his
wife sought aid at farm house, which was
tenanted only by one woman. The two
women took blankets to Hass, 1t being then
| 10 o'clock at night. When they got to him
he was unconscious. Mrs. .Hass wrapped her
4 husband in blankets, while her assistant went
home, and the wife remained by her hus-
bands side until he died, at o'clock the
next morning. When help arrived she was
nearly dead,
Sig bpgs-Walter Moon, Walter Heath,
4 William Pierce, John Gregg, Charles Bon
stein and Manning Garis-aged from u to Is
yedrs, and all of Easton, Penna., were killed
by train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad near
that city on Saturday afternoon. They had
been hunting muskrats and wera walking
home along the track in binding snowstorm.
| A coal train approaching they stepped on the
opposite track and were struck by fast pas